“I believe that in order to dismantle unequal power structures, marginalised groups and communities need to come together to find solutions to challenge the current paradigm and create a more inclusive future. ”

Busisiwe Dlamini is a dialogue practitioner focusing on issues of race, social justice and transformation. She was part of a team involved in the national rollout of a transformation process through the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS), at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

Busi is the former director of Dignity International, a rights-based development organisation. The greater part of her work before consulting was with a group of social innovators working on complex social issues using systems-thinking methodology and scenario planning. This included projects in food security, mining safety, health, rural poverty and social entrepreneurship. Her introduction to systems work was with Generon Consulting on a multisectoral project around orphaned and vulnerable children. As project manager at ABC Ulwazi, a radio production and training consultancy organisation, she facilitated the creation of listeners’ associations, dialogue forums linked to community radio stations in all nine provinces of South Africa, as an HIV/AIDS communication strategy.